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"Congratulations on your election to Congress, Ai."
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"Thank you, Mr. Alphonse."
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Emergency elections were held in the Orient.
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The unprecedented murder of many council members at the hands of criminal gangs nestled in the favelas made it necessary to hold elections immediately to fill the seats that had been lost.
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Ai was successfully elected in the supplementary elections held there.
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This is a great achievement.
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Because even if Ai had been able to use someone else's family register, it was unknown whether he would be able to get votes in the election or not.
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Rather, it would have been normally difficult to gather votes no matter how hard he/she tried, if he/she came out of nowhere from some unknown place.
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However, Ai succeeded in gathering votes far beyond the guaranteed line.
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This is said to be the largest number of votes ever received by a new candidate.
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This is largely due to Ai's past activities.
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Ai was always there for Laura, who had already become a member of the House of Representatives, as her secretary and escort.
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This was Laura's first time to be a member of the Diet, but she worked hard, not just to get elected and earn a salary as a member of the Diet.
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She not only researched about the Congress, which she had never experienced before, but also attended every meeting of the Congress and actively expressed her opinions and attended meetings here and there.
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And, of course, Ai would follow him there.
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Laura often asked for Ai's opinion in discussions with the top officials and powerful people in the organization.
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After all, Ai knows a lot of things, and once she learns something, she never forgets it.
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If Laura had even the slightest doubt, she would ask Ai and he would answer her correctly.
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Such a scene was seen here and there.
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And it is said that those who came to consult with Laura as a councilor were sometimes listened to by Ai at Laura's house.
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As a result, Ai gained the trust and confidence of many people.
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Not only the council members and the leaders of the craftsmen's union, but also ordinary people came to think that Ai knew them and that they could rely on him for any kind of advice.
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This may have had something to do with the mutual aid society of the Church of Barca.
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Ai was doing various jobs in the mutual aid society as a cooperative organization among the followers of Barca Church that was established in the Orient.
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Especially in the beginning, when there was not enough manpower, Ai would accept requests for help, accept them as requests, and then arrange to find people to accept the requests.
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Naturally, this was also the case within the city-state.
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People came to recognize Ai as a perfect superhuman who could do the work of many people, and as a beautiful woman of the highest caliber.
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How could she not be popular?
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Thus, Ai was elected with a large number of votes.
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"As a result of this by-election, the number of pro-Balkan voters has reached a certain number. I think it would be a good idea to form a pro-Balkan party.
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"Barka Party? What's that?"
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It is a political party. In a congress, there are as many opinions as there are members. The essential way is to discuss these opinions, find a point of agreement, or abolish a bill. However, when a group of people who share the same opinions obtain a certain number of seats among the specified number of members, it has the effect of making it easier to guide the course of the discussion.
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"Oh, that's how it is. If two out of three people are in on it and always speak the same opinion, that means the other one's opinion can be ignored, right?"
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"That's right. The current pro-Balka faction is not that large, but it is a number that can exert a great deal of influence in the Congress."
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Ai, who had been elected to the council, said this without showing any sign of happiness.
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Ai was not the only one from Barca to be elected in this supplementary election.
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Other people who could be called pro-Balkan were also elected.
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The Barka church was involved in this as well.
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The Soma Church may have been behind the attack on the councilors.
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I, as a Protector who controls the criminal organizations that nest in the favelas, spouted such a view and spread similar rumors in various places.
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As a result, more and more people began to consider distancing themselves psychologically from the Soma Church.
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This led to the spread of the opinion that in order to protect the Orient from dangerous religions, it would be better to have a member of the Balkan Church who protects them through mutual aid societies and so on.
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The mutual aid associations offered money for requests, but there were some eccentric people who did the requests for the purpose of helping others rather than for money.
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Naturally, they were ranked high in the mutual aid association's ranking system and attracted a certain amount of attention.
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They had asked such oddballs to run for election and help people further, and had them run for the supplementary election this time.
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Furthermore, in order to get their votes, they actively asked for votes at Barca Church.
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Moreover, in order to increase the number of members of the Barca faction as much as possible, he even instructed them where to vote so that the votes would be divided not only among Ai but also among the other members of the Barca faction.
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Whether this would be successful or not was a gamble.
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There was a possibility that the votes would not be divided as instructed and that they would be spread too thinly, resulting in the failure of all the members to win the election.
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However, such fears did not come true in the end.
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It seems that we were able to distribute the votes according to our instructions to some extent, and most of the candidates prepared by the Barca Church were elected.
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Although they did not receive votes from people who were not related to the Barca Church like Ai, it did not matter because they were all members of the same council if they were elected.
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This is the reason why they were able to secure enough numbers to form what Ai calls the Barka Party.
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That's good.
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This may allow me to take advantage of my position as Protector of the Protectorate, where I can use direct military force, and the Congress, where I can make decisions on national policy.
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When the congress resumes in earnest, I should ask Ai if it is possible to create an environment where I can move more easily by demonstrating the power of the united Barka Party.
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In the winter of the 10th year of the Gallaudian calendar, the Orient was steadily changing into a country that was easier for me to work in.
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